Month: February 2011
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Liturgy under Benedict XVI
Some claim that the pope is undoing the Second Vatican Council and forty-five years of progress in implementing the Council. Others claim that he is working to implement faithfully the vision of the Second Vatican Council, which means undoing the mistakes and misinterpretations of the past forty-five years and going back to what the Council…
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Translating the Roman Canon: 1967 and 2010 (part I)
A 1967 ICEL booklet provides commentary on the liturgical, historical, and linguistic considerations behind an earlier translation of the Roman Canon. We share it with you to show the specific reasons for decisions made in the 1960s, and also to allow you to see the 2010 translation against this background.
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Tarheel Workshops
I would suggest that the key to the positive response to the three workshops I have facilitated thus far has been the result of the decision our task force made to not simply present the text of the Roman Missal but rather to use this as an opportunity to invite the faithful to consider more…
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Mostly negative reactions to new missal in New Zealand
These changes of wording in the Mass liturgy are, for many of us, frustrating and backward in thinking. For the resultant text, was the time and cost expended truly merited?…
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Prayers of Confession
“If the ‘Confession: A Roman Catholic App’ makes that connection between heart, mind and voice that call us to an even deeper confession of Christ, then would the creators make an app for us Protestant worshipers as well?”
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Making the best of the coming translation II
“At our pre-Lent Priest’s Conference the hot topic was the implementation of the missal. I thought you might get a kick out of these words from our bishop. . . .”
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Making the best of the coming translation
“I had hoped that what we got would be basically OK; from what I have seen so far, it’s mostly not OK. If it is a done deal, and if we are facing a sure implementation of this text, then all we can do is pray it as best we can and give it our…
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200+ Freiburg clergy support theologians’ appeal for reform UPDATED 3-09-11
More than 100 clergymen of the Diocese of Freiburg support the appeal for reform of the Church by Catholic professors. Cathedral rector Claudius Stoffel: “The critique comes from the broad middle of the Church, and people expect that we engage it.”
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Critics of the New Translation Learning from Critics of the Old Translation
Critics of the soon-to-be-implemented translation find themselves in the position of learning from those whom they might normally consider their opponents, namely, those who enthusiastically welcome the new translation after having spent years praying a translation that they dislike.